Category: Biographies
Brontë Genius--Patrick Brontë--His Birthplace--His early Endeavours--Ordained--Presented to Hartshead--High Town--His Courtship and Marriage--Removes to Thornton--His House--Thornton Chapel--Mrs. Brontë's failing Health--Mr. Brontë Accepts the Living of Haworth--Rudeness of th...
Brontë Genius--Patrick Brontë--His Birthplace--His early Endeavours--Ordained--Presented to Hartshead--High Town--His Courtship and Marriage--Removes to Thornton--His House--Tho...
2. CHAPTER II.The Mother of the Brontës--Her Character and Personal Appearance --Her Literary Taste--Penzance, her Native Place--Description of Penzance--The Branwell Family--Personal Traits...
3. CHAPTER III.Character of the Rev. P. Brontë--Charges against Him--Serious Allegations of Biographers--Injustice of the Charges--Mr. Brontë's indignant Denial of the Imputations--Testimony o...
4. CHAPTER IV.Girlhood--Gravity of Character--Charlotte's Description of the Elf-land of Childhood--The Still and Solemn Moors of Haworth influence their Writings--The Present of Toys--The Pl...
5. CHAPTER V.Reunion of the Brontë Family--Branwell is the supposed Prototype of Victor Crimsworth--That Character not a complete Portrait of Branwell--His Friendships--His Visit to the Keig...
6. CHAPTER VI.7. CHAPTER VII.Charlotte goes to Roe Head--Return Home--Branwell at the Time--The Companion of his Sisters--Escorts Charlotte on a Visit--He becomes Interested in Pugilism--His Education--His...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Love of Art in the Youthful Brontës--Their elaborate Drawings-- J. B. Leyland, Sculptor--Spartacus--Mr. George Hogarth's Opinion--Art Exhibition at Leeds--Mr. William Robinson,...
9. CHAPTER IX.Charlotte returns as a Teacher, with Emily as a Pupil, to Roe Head--Their Determination to Maintain themselves--Charlotte's Fears respecting Emily--Charlotte's religious Melanch...
10. CHAPTER X.The Light in which Biographers have regarded Branwell-- Bibliography--Mrs. Gaskell--The Causes which led her into Error--Resentment of Branwell's Friends--Mr. George Searle Phil...
11. CHAPTER XI.Branwell becomes a Freemason--His love of Art undiminished--Has Instruction in Oil-Painting--Commences Portrait-Painting at Bradford--His Commissions--His Letter to Mr. Thompson...
12. CHAPTER XII.13. CHAPTER XIII.Branwell's Letter to Wordsworth, with Stanzas--Remarks upon it--No Reply--He Tries Again--His Interest in the Manchester and Leeds Railway--Branwell's Literary and Artistic Frie...
14. CHAPTER XIV.15. CHAPTER XV.Charlotte's first Offer of Marriage--Her Remarks concerning it --A second Offer Declined--Anne a Governess--She Moralizes upon it--Charlotte obtains a Situation--Unsuited to Her...
16. CHAPTER XVI.The District of Black Comb--Branwell's Sonnet--Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge--Branwell's Letter to the 'Old Knave of Trumps'--Its Publication by Miss Robinson in her 'Emily B...
17. CHAPTER XVII.Branwell's Appointment at Ulverston ends--He gets a Situation on the Railroad at Sowerby Bridge--Branwell at Luddenden Foot-- His Friends' Reminiscences of him--Charlotte and Em...
18. CHAPTER XVIII.Situation of Luddenden Foot--Branwell visits Manchester--The Sultry Summer--He visits the Picturesque Places adjacent--His impromptu Verses to Mr. Grundy--He leaves the Railway...
19. CHAPTER I.Brontë Genius--Patrick Brontë--His Birthplace--His early Endeavours--Ordained--Presented to Hartshead--High Town--His Courtship and Marriage--Removes to Thornton--His House--Tho...
20. CHAPTER II.The Mother of the Brontës--Her Character and Personal Appearance --Her Literary Taste--Penzance, her Native Place--Description of Penzance--The Branwell Family--Personal Traits...
21. CHAPTER III.Character of the Rev. P. Brontë--Charges against Him--Serious Allegations of Biographers--Injustice of the Charges--Mr. Brontë's indignant Denial of the Imputations--Testimony o...
22. CHAPTER IV.Girlhood--Gravity of Character--Charlotte's Description of the Elf-land of Childhood--The Still and Solemn Moors of Haworth influence their Writings--The Present of Toys--The Pl...
23. CHAPTER V.Reunion of the Brontë Family--Branwell is the supposed Prototype of Victor Crimsworth--That Character not a complete Portrait of Branwell--His Friendships--His Visit to the Keig...
24. CHAPTER VI.Mr. Brontë, perhaps, made use of a slight hyperbole when he said that, as soon as they could read and write, Charlotte and her brother and sisters used to invent and act little...
25. CHAPTER I.A dead silence had reigned in the Home Office of Verdopolis for three hours in the morning of a fine summer's day, interrupted only by such sounds as the scraping of a pen-knife...
26. CHAPTER VII.Charlotte goes to Roe Head--Return Home--Branwell at the Time--The Companion of his Sisters--Escorts Charlotte on a Visit--He becomes Interested in Pugilism--His Education--His...
27. CHAPTER VIII.Love of Art in the Youthful Brontës--Their elaborate Drawings-- J. B. Leyland, Sculptor--Spartacus--Mr. George Hogarth's Opinion --Art Exhibition at Leeds--Mr. William Robinson,...
28. CHAPTER IX.Charlotte returns as a Teacher, with Emily as a Pupil, to Roe Head--Their Determination to Maintain themselves--Charlotte's Fears respecting Emily--Charlotte's religious Melanch...
29. CHAPTER X.The Light in which Biographers have regarded Branwell--Bibliography --Mrs. Gaskell--The Causes which led her into Error--Resentment of Branwell's Friends--Mr. George Searle Phil...
30. CHAPTER XI.Branwell becomes a Freemason--His love of Art undiminished--Has Instruction in Oil-Painting--Commences Portrait-Painting at Bradford--His Commissions--His Letter to Mr. Thompson...
31. CHAPTER XII.In the early part of the present century, the spirit of poetry began to make itself felt in quarters where previously it had never been known. The pedantic affectation of the De...
32. CHAPTER XIII.Branwell's Letter to Wordsworth, with Stanzas--Remarks upon it--No Reply--He Tries Again--His Interest in the Manchester and Leeds Railway--Branwell's Literary and Artistic Frie...
33. CHAPTER XIV.While Branwell was occupying his leisure as stated in the last chapter, and otherwise employing himself in a desultory way, he pursued the poetic bent of his genius, and sought...
34. CHAPTER XV.Charlotte's first Offer of Marriage--Her Remarks concerning it-- A second Offer Declined--Anne a Governess--She Moralizes upon it--Charlotte obtains a Situation--Unsuited to Her...
35. CHAPTER XVI.The District of Black Comb--Branwell's Sonnet--Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge--Branwell's Letter to the 'Old Knave of Trumps'--Its Publication by Miss Robinson in her 'Emily B...
36. CHAPTER XVII.Branwell's Appointment at Ulverston ends--He gets a Situation on the Railroad at Sowerby Bridge--Branwell at Luddenden Foot--His Friends' Reminiscences of him--Charlotte and Emi...
37. CHAPTER XVIII.Situation of Luddenden Foot--Branwell visits Manchester--The Sultry Summer--He visits the Picturesque Places adjacent--His impromptu Verses to Mr. Grundy--He leaves the Railway...